Lex Sokolin

AUGUST 5, 2019

Capital One recently suffered a data breach resulting from poor security practices that exposed 100 million credit card applications and accounts. Capital One’s estimate for $150 million on $28 billion seems off, to say the least. But it is endemic to all human systems, it is a part of us. Here is our factbase. What’s it Worth?

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Lex Sokolin

AUGUST 5, 2019

Capital One recently suffered a data breach resulting from poor security practices that exposed 100 million credit card applications and accounts. Capital One’s estimate for $150 million on $28 billion seems off, to say the least. But it is endemic to all human systems, it is a part of us. Here is our factbase. What’s it Worth?

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Jessica Ellerm

FEBRUARY 3, 2018

For some reason, the first month of the Gregorian calendar has an amazing ability to motivate us to abstain from alcohol, dust off our running shoes and chop up all our credit-cards. No doubt this makes us extremely vulnerable to thinking we can achieve great things, as we forge ahead with setting those lofty goals.

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South State Correspondent

APRIL 24, 2023

In less than 30 seconds, AutoGPT retrieved a list of the highest-rated restaurants, checked availability, and made the requested reservations at the auto-chosen Capital Grille (below). In tests, it did this in less time than it took to tell someone else to conduct the task set for us and about 10x faster than doing it ourselves.

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Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 19, 2017

This year brought us: Mergers out the yin-yang. Heavy core conversions weighing us down. Why does this remind us of Petloversbank.com and BancBowie from the dot.com era 18 years ago? The Get Outta Dodge (and Focus) Award – Goes to Capital One for exiting a significant mortgage business to focus on cards and direct banking.

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CB Insights

OCTOBER 29, 2018

In a deal that aimed to open the Chinese coal markets, US heavy-equipment behemoth Caterpillar paid $677M in 2012 to acquire ERA Mining Machinery Ltd. Motorola did come out with one notable phone, the Moto X, which was made in the US and received a fair amount of attention for its highly customizable build, but it failed to find a following.

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Vitalik Buterin

APRIL 20, 2018

Harberger taxes can essentially replace eminent domain ), and given that blockchains lack access to trusted human-controlled courts, these kinds of solutions may prove to be be even more ideal for blockchain-based markets than they are for “real life”. Harberger taxes. What do Posner and Weyl talk about? the highest bidder).

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CB Insights

MAY 10, 2018

The total number of MBAs granted in the US rose from about 4,000 a year in the 1940s to more than 170,000 a year now. Bain worked with the company to help define its digital strategy, using data to analyze the competitive landscape as well as identify existing internal digital strengths and weaknesses.

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CB Insights

JUNE 6, 2019

Notably, Solyndra’s rise coincided with the passing of 2009’s American Reinvestment and Recovery Act, which contained various subsidies and promises of investment for sustainable US energy initiatives. In March 2009, the US government announced it planned to award Solyndra a guaranteed loan of $535M as part of that initiative.

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South State Correspondent

JUNE 13, 2022

In this age of social media, global interconnectedness, and market volatility, banks can be one tweet torrent away from a lightning-fast onset of risk. Banks that take too much risk fail, and banks that take too little risk produce returns below their cost of capital and either get acquired or driven out of business.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 19, 2018

And that we should do that not because they’re tax evaders or evil — all things he said they, like all of us, are. But there wasn’t a person on the planet, save us here at PYMNTS, who back in 2014 didn’t say Apple Pay was going to crush everyone, marginalize the card networks and kill PayPal.

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CB Insights

NOVEMBER 16, 2017

In venture capital, returns follow the power law — 80% of the wins come from 20% of the deals. Get the 65-page report on teardowns for Union Square Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz, Sequoia Capital, and more. JD.com took a huge risk by stepping into a major market and investor Capital Today made a $2.4B

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